Recaps

Sakura Haruno defeated Chiyo but spared her, moved by Chiyo’s determination to protect Sunagakure. After the shinobi world recast the encounter as a cruel display of power, Sakura told Toyotomi Yinglang she had spared Chiyo because she was his woman.

• Sakura Haruno told Toyotomi Yinglang she planned to defeat Chiyo, spare her, and call her the “Powerful Puppeteer.”
• Sakura Haruno shattered Chiyo’s puppets with Quake Release techniques and defeated her in battle.
• Sakura Haruno praised Chiyo’s strength and resolve, then let her return to Sunagakure alive.
• Rumors spread that Sakura had spared Chiyo to show the shinobi world she could kill her whenever she chose.
• Sakura Haruno told Toyotomi Yinglang she had spared Chiyo because she did not want to kill Sasori’s grandmother, and he comforted her.

Tobirama Senju assigned the Uchiha to face Kirigakure and grew furious when he learned the Toyotomi Clan was sightseeing in the south. Toyotomi Yinglang refused to leave the southern border, while he explained to Sakura Haruno his views on Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s future.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi to send the Uchiha Clan east against Kirigakure, believing the matchup would test how many Uchiha survived.
• Tobirama Senju learned the Toyotomi Clan was at the southern border having a cookout and sent Hiruzen Sarutobi to demand that they reinforce the other battlefields.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Hiruzen Sarutobi he would provide gradual support but could not leave the south unguarded against Shamon, and Hiruzen left without eating.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi privately decided he had learned a way to preserve his clan’s strength during wartime.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama Senju trusted Hiruzen Sarutobi’s professed Will of Fire and predicted Konoha would survive but remain half-dead.

Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Imperial Palace and reunited with Kushina and their son, Jilan. He told Tsunade he planned to claim the Senju identity for the Toyotomi Clan, then agreed with Kushina that Jilan would begin training young and earn merit before inheriting land and status.

• Toyotomi Yinglang and Sakura Haruno used the Dragon Vein to leave the Toyotomi Clan grounds and return to the Imperial Palace.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reunited with Kushina and held Jilan, who reached for him with his Sharingan eyes.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade he would make the Toyotomi Clan the Senju Clan's legitimate successor, and Tsunade accepted his plan.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that Jilan would begin chakra training at three and go to war at ten.
• Kushina agreed to support Toyotomi Yinglang's plan for Jilan to grow strong and earn merit for the Great British Empire.

Toyotomi Yinglang decided to establish a colonial company to explore and exploit the other continents he had sensed, arguing that the Empire needed their resources, people, and land. He assigned Yutian to prepare the Great Britain East India Company and reassured Tsunade and Kushina that colonization served the Empire’s needs.

• Yutian reported that the Great British Empire’s population had passed 1.08 million and could exceed 1.5 million the following year.
• Toyotomi Yinglang revealed that he had sensed other continents and announced plans to colonize them through a company that would keep the Empire formally separate from its operations.
• Toyotomi Yinglang outlined plans to impose colonial and religious rule on black populations and enslave white populations through Triangle Trade, while Tsunade challenged his reasoning and eventually fell silent.
• Toyotomi Yinglang ordered Yutian to prepare the Great Britain East India Company and told Tsunade that the Empire would stop colonizing only when it no longer needed to.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that he was colonizing for the Empire’s needs and said Jilan would understand when he grew up.

Tobirama Senju spent Konoha’s remaining forces against Kumogakure while ordering more Uchiha to the deadly eastern front. At New Capital, Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Sakura Haruno that Tobirama intended to weaken the Uchiha and install an obedient clan head, while asserting that the Toyotomi would survive him.

• Tobirama Senju ordered Hiruzen Sarutobi to send logistics personnel into battle after Konoha’s reserves ran out.
• Uchiha En tried to hold the Uchiha formation together against Kirigakure’s Hidden Mist Technique, while Kagami Uchiha feared he would die before becoming Hokage.
• Tobirama Senju reviewed the Uchiha casualties and ordered more Uchiha to reinforce the eastern battlefield.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Tobirama was weakening the Uchiha because the Sharingan could enable Kage-level power and rebellion.
• Toyotomi Yinglang predicted Tobirama would install Uchiha Fushan as clan head after the war and said the Toyotomi’s future was beyond Tobirama’s control.

Yutian launched the Empire’s triangular trade by selling goods in the Land of Fire and buying slaves to transport back across the ocean. After reporting a profit of 11,900 ryo, he and Toyotomi Yinglang expected the trade to expand, while Sakura Haruno questioned the Empire’s use of slavery.

• Yutian explained to Shanbao that the Empire would sell goods in the Shinobi World, use the silver to buy slaves, and avoid the costs of war.
• Yutian sold silk, porcelain, tea, and spices for 14,000 ryo in a Land of Fire port.
• Yutian negotiated with a nobleman and bought 300 slaves for 2,100 ryo.
• Yutian told Shanbao that the trip had earned 11,900 ryo and credited Toyotomi Yinglang’s foresight.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would continue the slave trade until it no longer needed it, and Sakura left after questioning his justification.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained how Triangle Trade profits funded the Institute of Technology and domestic improvements, while Sasori completed a more effective, cheaper Gene Serum. The chapter left Yinglang focused on using wealth and technology to strengthen the Empire, as he spent time with Kushina, Jilan, and Tsunade.

• Sasori reported that his improved Gene Serum was thirty percent more effective, had fifty percent fewer side effects, and cost twenty percent less, and Yinglang directed him to develop engines, trains, artillery, and Battle Armor.
• Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that Triangle Trade profits funded technological research and public works, while higher living standards had improved life for freemen and commoners.
• Yinglang visited Kushina and their son Jilan, joked about his profits, and promised Kushina new clothes.
• Yinglang told Tsunade that Sasori had finished improving the Gene Serum and said the Empire's soldiers would become stronger.
• Tsunade asked whether Yinglang would always be pragmatic, and he answered that realists were the ones who survived in the Shinobi World.

Toyotomi Yinglang ordered a sweeping expansion and restructuring of the Empire’s education system to cultivate specialists across many fields. The chapter ended with him reassuring Tsunade that the Empire’s future would be bright because they were nurturing it.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Yutian to build schools across the Empire, establish Royal Academy branch campuses, recruit teachers, and create six-year primary and secondary schools followed by four-year universities.
• Toyotomi Yinglang argued that Imperial education would teach students to fight, farm, trade, and govern, unlike Konoha’s Ninja Academy, which he said focused on fighting and loyalty to Konoha.
• Sakura Haruno visited Sasori at the Institute of Technology, and he told her he would stay in the Empire because Yinglang had given him everything; Sakura said Yinglang had given her everything too.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Kushina and their son Jilan, discussed the Empire’s schools and Jilan’s future education, and comforted Kushina as she grew emotional.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Tsunade after her training, spoke about the education expansion, and reassured her that the Empire’s future would be good because they were nurturing it.

Toyotomi Yinglang coordinated with Black Zetsu over Obito's role in Kaguya's resurrection and inspected the Evil God's three war colossi. They planned to use the Death Fang to distract Minato Namikaze, while Toyotomi Yinglang assigned the other colossi opponents in the coming war.

• Black Zetsu reported that Obito had given a Sharingan to Kakashi after being crushed and was recovering with White Zetsu at Madara Uchiha's place.
• Toyotomi Yinglang handed Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan to Black Zetsu, explained their authority restrictions, and ordered him to return Kakashi's Sharingan to Obito.
• The Evil God revealed the Fear Hammer, which absorbed wartime fear, pain, and despair and could approach the Ten-Tails in strength.
• The Evil God planned to send the Death Fang against Konoha to distract Minato Namikaze and give Black Zetsu an opportunity to act.
• Toyotomi Yinglang assigned the Fear Hammer to Hashirama Senju, the Death Fang to Minato Namikaze, and the Heavenly Evil God Wings to the other Kage after learning the colossi could not be mass-produced.
• Toyotomi Yinglang later told the Evil God that the war would end soon, but not yet, and reaffirmed his confidence in his planning.

Obito recovered under Madara’s care, then witnessed Kakashi kill Rin and awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, using Kamui to slaughter the Kirigakure pursuers. Black Zetsu and the Evil God regarded Obito as a potential vessel, while Kakashi remained unaware that Obito had seen Rin die.

• Madara told Obito that White Zetsu cells had repaired his body and ordered him to rest until he recovered.
• Black Zetsu reported that Minato Namikaze had been lured away, and the Evil God anticipated Obito witnessing Rin’s death.
• Kakashi rescued Rin from Kirigakure, learned she had been made the Three-Tails’ jinchūriki, and killed her at her request to prevent the beast from endangering Konoha.
• Obito witnessed Rin’s death, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and used Kamui to make dozens of Kirigakure ninja disappear.
• Black Zetsu called Obito a perfect vessel, while the Evil God and Toyotomi Yinglang discussed making him their vessel.

Madara taught Obito about the Uchiha’s secret techniques and Yin-Yang Release, while Toyotomi Yinglang stole Kakashi’s Sharingan and planned to capture Rin Nohara’s soul. Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina he would resurrect Rin as her maid, and Kushina agreed to take her in.

• Madara gave Obito a scroll and began teaching him the Uchiha’s secret techniques and Yin-Yang Release, telling him he would become a second Madara.
• Toyotomi Yinglang gouged out Kakashi’s left eye and took the Sharingan Obito had given him, leaving Kakashi unconscious beside Rin’s body.
• Black Zetsu reported the theft to the Evil God, while Toyotomi Yinglang announced he would capture Rin Nohara’s soul, resurrect her, and make her Kushina’s maid.
• Toyotomi Yinglang returned to the Imperial Palace and told Kushina about his plan to bring Rin to her; Kushina agreed to take Rin in.

Toyotomi Yinglang resurrected Rin Nohara after erasing her memories and made her a maid in the Empire, where Kushina took her in. Rin began adjusting to palace life as Kushina and Tsunade considered her future and the Empire's.

• Toyotomi Yinglang used Meng Po Soup to erase Rin Nohara's memories, resurrected her, and told her she was Rin of the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang introduced Rin to Kushina as her maid, and Kushina agreed to teach her how to survive in the Empire.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade about Rin and asked her to teach the girl medical ninjutsu; Tsunade agreed.
• Kushina found Rin tending flowers and reminded her that she was now Rin of the Empire, not Rin Nohara of Konoha.
• Kushina asked Rin whether she missed home, and Rin said she did not know because she remembered nothing.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian how the Shinobi World War enriched the Empire and served the shinobi villages, while predicting Konoha would survive under the Sage of Six Paths. He reassured Kushina and Tsunade that the Empire would grow stronger without changing for the worse.

• At the Jashin Cult headquarters, the Apostle of Pain reported that Death Fang had broken the Southern Army's line and was keeping Minato Namikaze occupied, so the Evil God ordered Fear Hammer prepared to confront Hashirama Senju.
• Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed the Triangle Trade report with Yutian and learned that profits had tripled from the previous year.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that war would reduce populations and fighting strength while enriching the powerful, and said Konoha would cling to life but not perish because the Sage of Six Paths would prevent it.
• Yutian asked whether the Empire would remain unchanged, and Toyotomi Yinglang promised it would grow stronger, larger, and wealthier without changing for the worse.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that the Empire's future was also Jilan's future, then reassured Tsunade that the Empire would prosper as the Shinobi World War continued.

Toyotomi Yinglang declared that Great Britain would begin expanding overseas through puppet regimes and colonial exploitation, while Tsunade proved her strength against ten super soldiers. The chapter ended with Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade discussing the Empire’s seemingly endless expansion as they went to sleep together.

• Yutian reported that Great Britain had a population of over 1.5 million and a formidable army, ninja corps, and super soldiers, and Toyotomi Yinglang ordered him to prepare for colonization through puppet rulers.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Yutian that puppet regimes would take the blame for colonial exploitation while Britain extracted the colonies’ wealth.
• Tsunade defeated ten standard-grade super soldiers in a training match and earned extra dishes for dinner.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that the Empire would colonize the New Continent, enslaving those who refused to submit, and said Jilan should remember that mercy brought death.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade she would fight twenty super soldiers the next day, and she accepted his explanation that he wanted her strong enough to stay safe.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Empire would keep expanding until no land remained to explore, though they would not live to see that end.

Toyotomi Yinglang used Dragon Essence power to stop Jilan from eating hair while Yutian expanded the Great British Empire’s influence overseas by establishing a vassal kingdom and planning to divide a continent among three controlled states. Back in the New Capital, Yinglang praised Yutian’s work and told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would change and grow stronger.

• Toyotomi Yinglang treated Jilan with Dragon Essence power, removing the pica factor that made him eat hair.
• Yutian landed on an island, appointed the native chief Black Horn as king, and made the Black Horn Kingdom a Great British vassal with a restricted army.
• Yutian ordered officials to divide a newly sighted continent into three cold-weapon kingdoms, each bound by a Great Britain East India Company contract.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Sakura Haruno that the Black Horn people were merely alive and insisted that the Empire would change for the better.
• Toyotomi Yinglang read Yutian’s report and praised him as a Pillar of the Great British Empire.

Yutian established the Thousand Mountains Kingdom, Yellow Sand Kingdom, and Hundred Trees Kingdom on the Three Kingdoms Continent, binding their kings to the Great Britain East India Company and restricting their armies. Back in the New Capital, Toyotomi Yinglang approved the expansion and told Sakura Haruno the Empire would keep expanding until no land remained.

• Yutian divided the continent into three resource-producing kingdoms and planned to keep them dependent on the Empire and unable to wage major wars.
• Yutian forced Mutu to sign the East India Company contract, made him king of the Hundred Trees Kingdom, and ordered Hei Bao to help establish the state.
• Yutian assigned Hei Heishui to help establish the Thousand Mountains Kingdom and told him immigrants from the Shinobi World would supply workers for the Empire’s mining needs.
• Yutian assigned Bashi to help establish the Yellow Sand Kingdom, which would supply salt and gold dust to imperial merchants.
• Yutian returned by fleet with contracts signed by all three kings and named the region the Three Kingdoms Continent.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the expansion, told Sakura Haruno that the Empire would expand until there was nowhere left to expand, and sent her to train.

Yutian and Toyotomi Yinglang expanded the Empire’s slave-trading network, targeting white people on a newly discovered continent and using ostensibly independent trading companies as fronts. The chapter ended with Yinglang spending time with Kushina and their young son Jilan, promising to build a future for him.

• Yutian identified white people on the newly discovered continent as valuable slave-trading goods and ordered Takeo to map a trade route while investigating the local tribes and resources.
• At a secret Shinobi World port, Yutian told Takeo to establish at least twenty Imperial-owned trading companies disguised as independent merchants and replace unreliable intermediaries.
• Takeo met Lin De in the Land of Fire, raised the prices of white slaves, and instructed him to find more Imperial fronts.
• Toyotomi Yinglang approved the slave prices in a report and told Sakura Haruno the Empire would stop selling slaves when it no longer needed to.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the palace garden and told Kushina that his growing wealth would secure their son’s future.

Toyotomi Yinglang reviewed the Empire’s growing population and resources, then spoke with Kushina, Pakura, and Karura about their lives in the Empire and its expansion. He left Pakura with orders to resume training her Scorch Release as the Empire prepared to grow stronger.

• Yutian reported that the British Continent had 1.6 million people, described the value of white slaves, and listed the populations and resources of four vassal kingdoms.
• Toyotomi Yinglang learned that the Yellow Sand Kingdom had petroleum and told Yutian to send troops to protect it, though the Empire could not yet use the resource.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the garden, where he joked that Jilan’s large appetite promised a powerful future.
• Pakura and Karura told each other they did not regret coming to the Empire, where they felt they could live as people rather than tools or weapons.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Pakura and Karura that he intended to keep expanding the Empire, then ordered Pakura to practice her Scorch Release because the Empire needed her strength.

Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade discussed the Shinobi World War as a cockfighting pit where ninja died for nobles’ benefit, while Yutian continued reviewing intelligence. Yinglang then visited Kushina and Jilan, discovering the child’s extraordinary digestion as he ate five bowls of rice.

• Toyotomi Yinglang compared ninja to fighting cocks and described the Will of Fire as stimulant-laced feed and Konoha as a cockfighting pit.
• Yutian asked what the Empire’s future would be like, and Yinglang assured him it would be good because they were not fighting cocks.
• Toyotomi Yinglang and Tsunade visited Kushina and found Jilan eagerly eating pastry after already having three bowls.
• Yinglang fed Jilan five bowls of rice and used Dragon Essence to discover that the child digested food with extraordinary efficiency.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina and Tsunade that Jilan’s unusual digestion meant he would grow stronger and had a promising future.

Toyotomi Yinglang showed Yutian the Empire’s imperial treasury and its powerful ninjutsu, techniques, medicines, and weapons. He forbade Yutian from taking the most dangerous weapons, and Yutian chose the Unity of Heaven and Humanity scroll before leaving with Toyotomi Yinglang.

• Toyotomi Yinglang explained that the treasury contained the Empire’s inventions, including dangerous forbidden techniques and ideas for reaching Six Paths.
• Toyotomi Yinglang showed Yutian techniques, drugs, and medicines, describing their powers and costs.
• Toyotomi Yinglang displayed the treasury’s weapons and refused to give Yutian the Peerless Cursed Sword, Ten-Thousand Phenomena Mirror Armor, or Meridian-Eroding Greatsword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang invited Yutian to choose a reward, and Yutian selected the Unity of Heaven and Humanity scroll.
• Yutian asked about the Empire’s future, and Toyotomi Yinglang assured him it would be good because the Empire possessed the treasury’s resources.

Toyotomi Yinglang explained to Tsunade why the Empire’s strategic weapons had to remain under his control, then gave her a scroll teaching Unity of Heaven and Humanity. He rewarded Sasori with the Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword and later told Kushina that he trusted his disciple; the chapter ended with him urging infant Jilan to treat his future disciples well.

• Toyotomi Yinglang told Tsunade that the Empire’s treasury held strategic weapons that could undermine his rule if given to outsiders, then gave her a scroll on Unity of Heaven and Humanity.
• Toyotomi Yinglang visited Sasori in the Imperial Palace Institute of Technology and presented him with the Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang explained the sword’s four powers and its weaknesses, while Sasori accepted the weapon and promised to use it well.
• Toyotomi Yinglang joined Kushina and Jilan in the garden and told them that he had given Sasori the sword.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina he trusted Sasori because he was his disciple, then urged Jilan to treat his own future disciples well.

Toyotomi Yinglang gave Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan weapons suited to their abilities and watched them test the weapons at the Imperial Palace. He later told Kushina that strengthening his disciples was an investment in the Empire and in Jilan’s safety.

• Toyotomi Yinglang presented Yahiko with the Reincarnation Prison-Suppressing Staff, Konan with the Pure White Sin-Condemning Kunai, and Nagato with the Infinite Golden Brick.
• Tsunade questioned why Sasori’s Eight-Headed Serpent Bone Sword seemed inspired by Orochimaru, and Toyotomi Yinglang replied that weapons were only tools.
• Yahiko used his staff to shatter an Empire Super Soldier’s shield during training.
• Konan silently defeated an Empire Super Soldier with her kunai, while Nagato used the Infinite Golden Brick to smash a stronger soldier into the ground.
• Toyotomi Yinglang told Kushina that he treated his disciples well because their growth would strengthen the Empire and help keep Jilan safe.

Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan judged the Uchiha doomed and decided to target Hiruzen Sarutobi, while planning to collect Sharingan and send Uchiha souls to their teacher after the clan’s destruction. They trained together and ended the chapter expecting the Uchiha massacre to happen soon.

• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan assessed their strength as near the Super Kage threshold and chose Hiruzen Sarutobi as their target.
• Yahiko argued that the Uchiha deserved their fate because of their history and ties to people who had harmed their teacher’s family.
• Nagato said the group would take Sharingan after Konoha wiped out the Uchiha and send collected souls to their teacher for new lives.
• The three trained together with their special weapons, improving their coordination and strength.
• That night, Nagato told Konan he believed the Uchiha would be wiped out soon, and she accepted his warning.

On the Kirigakure battlefield, Nagato discovered that the Uchiha had been poisoned for decades and judged Shisui and Itachi too cowed to resist. Back at the Jashin Cult Headquarters, he said their teacher owed the Uchiha nothing and left with Yahiko and Konan to train.

• Nagato watched Shisui and Itachi fight and called them a coward and a weakling who would not resist.
• Nagato used his Golden Eyes to discover that a slow-acting poison had seeped into the Uchiha’s drinking water for decades, harming their chakra systems.
• Nagato refused to warn Shisui and Itachi, and he, Yahiko, and Konan left the Kirigakure battlefield for the Land of Rain.
• Nagato explained that generations of poison, discrimination, and suppression had changed the Uchiha and left them unable to resist.
• At the Jashin Cult Headquarters, Nagato said their teacher would not deal with the Uchiha because he had repaid Elder Xuan and owed the rest of the clan nothing.
• Nagato said he owed the Uchiha nothing because their teacher had given him his Sharingan, training, weapons, and path, then left to train with Yahiko and Konan.

Madara died, and Black Zetsu informed Toyotomi Yinglang and the Evil God that Obito’s era had begun. At the Jashin Cult headquarters, Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan discussed Obito’s power and plans before recommitting themselves to training and trying to change the Shinobi World.

• Madara died in his underground cavern, and Black Zetsu recovered the sealed Rinnegan from his robes.
• Black Zetsu told Toyotomi Yinglang and the Evil God that Madara was dead, and they planned to support anti-Konoha forces and send three apostles to kill the Great Toad Sage.
• Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan discussed Obito’s Double Kamui and concluded that he would seek revenge when Konoha was weakest.
• Nagato told Konan that Obito would pursue the Eye of the Moon to create a world with Rin, though he believed Obito would ultimately be disappointed.
• Nagato urged Konan to keep trying to change the world, and the three went to rest before training the next day.